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Key Roles & Personas

This guide introduces the key roles and personas in Cloudaware, along with their core responsibilities and recommended documentation paths.

Operators (Cloud Engineers, SREs)​

Responsibilities:

  • Onboard cloud accounts and on‑prem sources; maintain discovery schedules.
  • Ensure data quality (tags/labels), relationship integrity, and inventory coverage.
  • Operate monitoring, logging, backup, and patch/vuln workflows.

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Compliance Teams (Security, GRC)​

Responsibilities:

  • Define and enforce policies/benchmarks; triage findings and coordinate remediation.
  • Track evidence, changes, and audit trails across assets and configurations.

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Developers (DevOps, Platform, IaC)​

Responsibilities:

  • Integrate Cloudaware into CI/CD and platform tooling; automate checks, exports, and remediation.
  • Extend data with custom objects/attributes and enrichment rules; consume APIs.

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FinOps​

Responsibilities:

  • Establish cost visibility across cloud accounts, business units, applications, and environments.
  • Govern allocation, showback, chargeback, budgets, forecasts, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.
  • Partner with cloud engineering, finance, and application owners to improve accountability and cost efficiency.

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Executives (CIO, CISO, FinOps Leadership)​

Responsibilities:

  • Set strategy for visibility, risk, and cost; define KPIs and governance.
  • Review posture, spend, and efficiency; ensure accountability across teams.

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